The Registro Nacional de Turismo is a prerequisite for legally operating any tourist accommodation in Colombia, including Airbnb and Booking listings. Registering and renewing it is free and fully online. Letting it lapse, on the other hand, costs a fine of 106.11 UVB. Here's the full procedure and, above all, what's about to change.
Start for free with RapitraAnnual renewal window. The procedure is free and done online on Confecámaras' RNT platform. It applies every year, regardless of when you first registered.
If you didn't renew, your RNT is automatically suspended. There's no prior notice and no grace period: it just happens, at midnight.
If you're reading this outside the renewal window and your RNT is already suspended, what applies to you isn't renewal but reactivation — and that does cost money. Read on.
This is the financial difference almost nobody explains until it's too late:
Renewing within the window
$0
Reactivating after suspension
106.11 UVB
Pay the fine to Fontur through its "Pago Multa Reactivación RNT" application — your Chamber of Commerce publishes the guide with the current link
Log into the RNT platform (rnt.confecamaras.co) with your username and password
Choose Solicitud de Reactivación + Renovación
Attach the payment receipt: the system validates it automatically
The payment goes to the Fondo Nacional de Turismo, not the Chamber of Commerce. The amount is set by article 313 of Ley 2294 de 2023 at 106.11 UVB — around COP $1,284,992 in 2026 — and the UVB is adjusted every January for inflation, so confirm the current figure before paying. Mind the order: payment must happen before requesting reactivation.
The procedure is online and free, but it fails if you arrive without the prerequisites ready. And you repeat it for every property: the RNT is filed per establishment or property, not one per provider. This order avoids rejections:
The lodging economic activity must be active on your RUT before you start. For an urban Airbnb apartment it's usually 5519. If it doesn't match what you declare in the RNT, the registration won't go through.
Address, establishment type, number of rooms or units, and capacity. Have your certificate of existence handy if you operate as a company.
If it's in a horizontal property, the bylaws must allow tourist use, and that use must be compatible with your area's zoning.
It's done on the Confecámaras portal. That's where the step accepting the ESCNNA code of conduct (Law 1336 of 2009) appears: without that acceptance the registration doesn't complete.
The request goes to the Chamber of Commerce in your jurisdiction, which reviews and approves. If something doesn't match your RUT or the property data, it comes back to you.
Log into the RNT platform with your username and password
Check that provider and establishment details are still current
Update anything that changed: address, capacity, contact, legal representative
Confirm adherence to the ESCNNA code of conduct
Submit the request and save the certificate that becomes available on approval
Renewing isn't just clicking through: it's your chance to bring the State's record of your operation up to date. If you changed address or capacity and don't report it, your certificate falls out of date — and that's what an inspector will see.
MinCIT has a draft decree that would partially replace Title 4, Part 2, Book 2 of Decreto 1074 de 2015 and significantly tighten RNT rules for tourist housing. It was republished for comment on July 6, 2026, with a deadline of July 11, 2026, after the sector pushed back on the first version.
What it proposes for hosts
Making explicit the requirement of one RNT per tourist housing unit, declared under oath in the form — registering each property separately is already mandatory today
Written proof that the horizontal property bylaws expressly authorize the activity
If you operate a property you don't own, a sworn declaration that you have the owner's authorization
A ban on simultaneously offering accommodation by the hour
Reinforcement of the duty to file the Tarjeta de Registro de Alojamiento (TRA)
What it proposes for platforms
Verify every six months that the host's RNT is still active
Display the RNT number visibly on every listing
Remove listings without a valid RNT
Share booking and tourist data with the authorities
Register themselves in the RNT
None of this is law yet. As of this writing the draft had not been issued: the comment period closed on July 11, 2026 and the government was still holding technical roundtables with the sector. Check its current status before making decisions. That said, the direction is clear — and if the decree is issued as drafted, a listing without a valid RNT would stop being a theoretical fine risk and become a listing removed from the platform.
Does your RUT have the lodging economic activity active?
Do the horizontal property bylaws allow tourist use?
Is that use compatible with your area's zoning?
Did you accept the ESCNNA code of conduct during registration?
Did you renew between January 1 and March 31 this year?
Does your RNT certificate reflect today's real address and capacity?
Holding a valid RNT is the permit to operate, but it exempts you from nothing: from there you must file the TRA with MinCIT for every guest and the SIRE with Migración Colombia for every foreigner. Those are per-booking obligations, not annual ones. That's exactly what Rapitra automates — the guest fills out one form and both transmissions go out on their own.
Automate TRA and SIRE with RapitraInitial registration and annual renewal are free. The only thing that costs money is reactivation after you let the deadline pass: a fine to Fontur of 106.11 UVB, set by article 313 of Ley 2294 de 2023 and adjusted every January for inflation.
Your RNT was suspended on April 1. You must pay the reactivation fine to Fontur — 106.11 UVB — through its "Pago Multa Reactivación RNT" application — your Chamber of Commerce publishes the guide with the current link — then request Reactivación + Renovación on the RNT platform, attaching the receipt. Payment comes first.
Yes. Article 2.2.4.1.2.2 of Decreto 1074 de 2015 requires providers to register each of their commercial establishments, branches, properties and agencies separately. Every apartment you rent out is a property where you provide the service, so each one carries its own RNT — there is no provider-level RNT covering several. The July 2026 draft decree doesn't create that obligation; it makes it explicit for tourist housing and puts it under sworn declaration in the form.
You shouldn't. Tourist use requires the horizontal property bylaws to allow it, and the draft decree would require proving it in writing at registration. On top of that, your administrator has a legal duty to report units to the SIC that lack authorization or an RNT.
No. The RNT is a registry renewed once a year; the TRA and SIRE are reports filed for each guest. Holding a valid RNT is precisely what obliges you to file them.
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